queachy, a. Obs. exc. dial.
(ˈkwiːtʃɪ)
Also 6–7 quechy, 9 (dial.) queechy.
[f. prec. + -y2. For the connexion between senses 1 and 2, cf. carr2.]
† 1. Forming a dense growth or thicket. Obs.
| 1565 Golding Ovid's Met. To Rdr. (1593) 1 Eche queachie grove, eche cragged cliffe, the name of Godhead tooke. 1586 W. Webbe Eng. Poetrie (Arb.) 76 Neuer againe shall I..See ye in queachie briers..clambring on a high hill. |
2. Of ground: Swampy, boggy. Obs. exc. dial.
| 1593 Peele Edw. I E iv, The dampes that rise from out the quechy [1599 quesie] plots. 1613 Heywood Braz. Age ii. ii. Wks. 1874 III. 190 Aime them at yon fiend, Den'd in the quechy bogge. 1631 Chettle Hoffmann I b, Nor doth the sun sucke from the queachy plot The ranknes..of the Earth. 1886 Elworthy W. Som. Word-bk., Queechy,..Applied to land—wet; sodden; swampy. |
3. dial. Feeble, weak, small.
| 1859 Geo. Eliot A. Bede x, They're poor queechy things, gells is. 1886 Elworthy W. Som. Word-bk., Queechy, sickly, feeble, queasy. |